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It recently came to my attention that I had been tagged with a “photo meme”.  The rule is, you go to your photos folders, pick the sixth folder, pick the sixth image in that folder, and post that image.  Then you tag five others.

Unfortunately for this theory, I store most of my photos in context-sensitive folders (so the photos of a given project are stored with that project’s photos, etc.), so I don’t have many photo folders per se.  So in “My Pictures”, there are only seven folders and the last few don’t even contain six photos!

So I decided to go with the fourth photo folder (which is the closest-to-sixth that has six photos).  It doesn’t contain any photos itself, so I went to the sixth photo subfolder, plucked the sixth photo, and here it is:

Eddie the weaver weaving in Ghana
Eddie the weaver weaving in Ghana

This was from my trip to Ghana and shows the Ghanaian loom, which I thought was ultra-cool.  For more on Ghanaian weaving, see my Ghana travel page on kente weaving.

I don’t read enough blogs to tag five people, so I’ll just put up this challenge: if you’re reading this, play the game on your own blog, and leave me a comment so I know to go look.

Comments

  1. You asked about weaving with two sets of heddles the way they do with kente weaving and how to weave with two sets of heddles on a standard loom. There is a similar technique called smalandsvav with short eye heddles for the ground and long eye heddles for the pattern. The threads go through both sets of heddles. Smalandsvav is also woven upside down. This is usually done on a Glimakra or other Swedish loom. You could do this on a multi-harness countermarch loom pretty easily. For a jack loom system, you could try by replacing your front heddles with long eyes (if you can find the right size) and then treating the two back harnesses (plain weave) as different from the front four (pattern harnesses). You might be able to use the back two and front four of a twelve shaft set-up. I’m not sure if it will work. Here’s the link for an example of smalandsvav: http://www.vavstuga.com/classes/clubprojpast.shtml
    It doesn’t look much like kente but I think that the same techniques could be applied.